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Subject: Re: Question on defaults
From: Richard Sharpe <admin @ ns . aus . com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:40:16 +1000
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com

At 03:36 PM 3/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Dave Wolfe wrote:
>
>>[ Geoffrey Day writes: ]
>>> 
>>> Majordmomo 1.94.1 automatically creates a default config file for a new
list.
>>> Where does it obtain these defaults from ??
>>> I wish to change some of the defaults.
>>
>>Bad Idea. But if you insist, look for %known_keys in config_parse.pl.
>>
>>-- 
>> Dave Wolfe
>
>Well my problem with defaults is that who_access defaults to 'open.'  This
>is a big mistake in my opinion.  All I did was convert to the latest
>version and now all of my lists are insecure.  I didn't notice until I was
>culling the logs and saw a bunch of successful who requests.

Indeed, I have manually set a whole bunch of things to closed in the latest
lists I set up, which was a real pain.

It would be nice if there was a policy file. I could then be paranoid once,
and it would all be done for me after that.

>Chael
>
>--
>Chael Hall, nowhere@chaos.taylored.com
Regards
-------
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